Nakuru County Government is working with the National Government to upgrade to upgrade the Mirera Technical and Vocational Training Institute (TVET) in Naivasha to be a constituent branch of the two National Youth Service (NYS) Training colleges in Nakuru County.
Ministry of Public Service, Performance and Delivery Management Cabinet Secretary Moses Kiarie Kuria said this will improve the quality of training at Mirera TVET and ensure job placement for its graduands, just like the NYS graduands.
He stated that his ministry in conjunction with Nakuru County Government are sourcing for fund to enable it link this TVET to NYS training colleges in Naivasha and Gilgil and promised that the graduands will be able to be placed in jobs in the disciplined forces and elsewhere.
The CS was speaking when he visited Mirera Technical and Vocational Training Institute (TVET) in Naivasha on Thursday.
“We will also upgrade this TVET which will see enrollment at Mirera TVET increase from the current 200 to 1,000 and equip many youths with skills that will help them get earn a living,” Kuria said and at the same time called for a partnership between TVET institutions and National Youth Service (NYS) to ensure local youths get requisite skills and bridge knowledge gap that today’s market needs.
The CS assured the youth that despite the challenge of brown teeth prevalent in Nakuru that has denied the young people jobs in the army and police, with this upgrading the young people from the larger Nakuru and Naivasha in particular will now be able to get those jobs.
The presence of fluoride in water which leads to browning of teeth has for a long time denied youths from Nakuru County jobs in the disciplined forces as the requirement for the jobs has been based on white teeth among other requirements.
Kuria also announced that plans were at advanced stage to set up a digital hub at the Mirera Technical and Vocational Training Institute (TVET) in Naivasha to create jobs for the young and lamented lack of jobs for young people had led them to engage in social ills such as drugs and alcoholism and crime.
“The Government has also secured a 5,000acre land in Maai – mahiu in Naivasha for the Special Economic Zones and this too will help absorb unemployed youths,” the CS observed.
He revisited the issue of One shilling; One vote and said resources should be distributed according to the size of the population to benefit from it and not the geographical size.
“For example, you find a constituency of a population of 300,000 people voters being allocated the same amount of bursary with the constituency with a population of 70,000 this is not fair,” Kuria stated.
During his visit he was accompanied by the Nakuru Deputy Governor David Kones.
By Mabel Keya Shikuku
